title: [Secondary pulmonary embolism to right atrial myxoma].
abstract: A case of pulmonary thromboembolism secondary to atrial myxoma right. The myxoma is a primary cardiac tumor, namely, has his origin in the cardiac tissue. Primary cardiac tumors are rare, including myxomas, the most common type. Have a predilection for females and the most useful tool for diagnosis is echocardiography. About 75% of myxomas occur in the left atrium of the heart and rest are in the right atrium. Right atrial myxomas in some sometimes associated with tricuspid stenosis and atrial fibrillation. The most common clinical manifestations include symptoms of this neoplasm constitutional, and embolic phenomena resulting from the obstruction to the flow intracavitary. The treatment of this condition is surgical.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Atención Primaria Les Roquetes, Área Básica de Salud Garraf-Rural, Unidad Docente de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria Costa Ponent, Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vico Besó
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Zúñiga Cedó
mesh_terms: D001281:Atrial Fibrillation; D006325:Heart Atria; D006338:Heart Neoplasms; D006801:Humans; D009232:Myxoma; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism
keywords: Atrial myxoma; Aurícula derecha; Mixoma auricular; Pulmonary thromboembolism; Right atrium; Tromboembolismo pulmonar